Erin Fornoff manages the search and selection of Ashoka Fellows in the UK and Ireland. Previously, she served as Ashoka Ireland Director and managed the European Venture Team. She co-founded and directed Lingo, Ireland's first spoken word poetry festival, and has set up and managed two community garden projects, as well as democracy programme for primary school students. Previously, she was staff on Obama's 2008 campaign. An accomplished poet, she has toured her poetry nationally and published three collections of poems.